MinIO Surpasses One Billion Cumulative Docker Downloads as

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MinIO Inc., creators of the MinIO multi-cloud object storage suite, in the present day introduced that it has surpassed one billion cumulative Docker downloads as the business sees a big progress in clients, deal measurement and enlargement. Seventy 5 p.c of the Fortune 100 corporations run MinIO, underscoring the foundational position that open supply know-how performs for enterprise cloud architectures.

The achievement of 1 billion cumulative Docker downloads represents a big milestone, by no means earlier than achieved by a software-defined object storage firm beforehand. Further, the speed of adoption continues to speed up with the corporate registering as many as 1.3M Docker pulls per day throughout 2022.

In addition to the Docker milestones, MinIO not too long ago achieved its 35,000th GitHub star, placing it within the prime 250 public repositories on the platform out of greater than 28 million. This stage of recognition within the GitHub neighborhood is usually reserved for databases and underscores MinIO’s impression on the info retailer panorama. MinIO’s GitHub Star milestone is greater than 3X the following open-source object retailer regardless of being 10 years youthful.

Finally, the MinIO Slack neighborhood continues to surge as properly, with its Slack channel approaching 20,000 members.

The product-led progress is a perform of the market’s finest software-defined object retailer, an unwavering dedication to true multi-cloud performance, a frictionless open-source technique and an obsession with buyer success. Together, these attributes have made MinIO the main object storage firm available on the market and have modified the way in which enterprises take into consideration object storage.

MinIO’s object retailer is the quickest on the earth, with printed GET/PUT throughput benchmarks in extra of 325 and 165 GiB/sec respectively on simply 32 nodes of NVMe. This efficiency has made MinIO the article retailer of alternative for main machine studying frameworks, analytics functions, databases, internet functions and different performance-oriented workloads. The function wealthy object storage suite is on the market on the general public cloud, personal cloud and edge. This consists of public cloud deployments on Google Kubernetes Engine, Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, personal cloud deployments on Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu, HPE Ezmeral, SUSE Rancher along with tens of millions of colo and edge deployments.

“A multi-cloud architecture simply makes sense for large distributed enterprises,” said Andy Green, VP Global Infrastructure & IT Operations at PRGX. “MinIO’s Kubernetes-native object store is lightweight and can be packed densely on a server, making it ideal for containerization. This also enables MinIO to run anywhere and on any cloud, from the edge to the data center.”

“Developers are the engine of value creation in the enterprise,” said AB Perisamy, co-founder and CEO of MinIO. “By building a product targeted at them, we have changed the storage landscape – making the appliance model obsolete, challenging legacy SAN/NAS implementations and altering the perspective of what object storage was capable of. Developers and architects are partners in our journey and we are humbled by their endorsement.”

Following the company’s $103M Series B round in January, which valued MinIO at more than $1 billion, the company has already doubled its revenue.

“We saw the potential early on for MinIO to rethink storage with a high-performance, multi-cloud solution, and disrupt an uninspired legacy market with a new approach. MinIO’s power, simplicity and capacity to run anywhere — from the edge to the cloud — powered one of the most compelling product-led growth stories in the technology space – leading to this unprecedented milestone,” said Mark Rostick, Vice President and Senior Managing Director of Intel Capital.

Read co-founder and COO Garima Kapoor’s blog post to learn more about today’s news and how it will support MinIO’s vision for an object storage-centric world.

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MinIO is pioneering high performance, Kubernetes-native object storage for the multi-cloud. The software-defined, Amazon S3-compatible object storage system is used by more than half of the Fortune 500. With 1B+ Docker downloads, MinIO is the fastest-growing cloud object storage company and is consistently ranked by industry analysts as a leader in object storage. Founded in 2014, the company is backed by Intel Capital, Softbank Vision Fund 2, Dell Technologies Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, General Catalyst and key angel investors.

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